Fifth-seeded C.M. Shashidhar packed off top seed Fabrice Bernabe in straight sets to enter the men’s above-35 semifinals at the BWF World senior badminton championship at Ankara, Turkey, on Thursday.
The results: Quarterfinals: Men: Above-65: Hansen Torben (Den) bt Vidyabhushan Arora 21-7, 21-17.
Above-60: Johan Croukamp (SA) bt Hubert Miranda 21-17, 21-9.
Above-45: B.V.S.K. Lingeswara Rao bt Uwe Pawelek (Ger) 21-8, 21-15; Mayur Tawade bt Heikki Valsanen (Fin) 21-17, 21-16; Above-35: Konstatin Myakishev (Rus) bt Joy T. Antony 21-17, 15-21, 21-11; C.M. Shashidhar bt Fabrice Bernabe (Fra) 21-13, 21-16.
Women: Above-40: Forlan Csilla Gondane (Hun) bt Poonam Tatwawadi 21-11, 21-18; Above-35: Rita Yuan Gao (Sco) bt Nisha Springett 21-9, 21-3.
